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Railway Heritage Museum

experience of travelling by train. We hope to see some of our plans implemented in the near future. In Donegal Town we hope to reinstate the track at the Old station House leading into the countryside to enable us to once again run engines out of Donegal. We also are currently looking at providing a small length of narrow gauge along the pier front as a major tourist attraction for the town. Step back to the days when steam trains ran through the hills of Donegal! Stretching from Derry and Strabane to Stranorlar/Ballybofey Letterkenny Donegal Killybegs Glenties and Ballyshannon the County Donegal Railway provided the essential transport for farmers and fishermen businessmen and builders housewives and schoolchildren--everyone who needed to get about or to transport just about anything. To the north of the County the Lough Swilly Railway reached out to Buncrana and Carndonagh on the Inishowen to Letterkenny and via a long winding route along the Atlantic coast and through wild